eBay's Most Miserable Bike

[Easy-X]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1976-HONDA-CJ-360-T-DAMAGED-SPARES-OR-REPAIR-HPI-CLEAR-22566/402100921990

[linuxyeti]

People are actually bidding on it !!
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[WD Forte]

I'd have it for cheap, seen worse
The wheels look good, some simple wiring and repairs and a bit of a tart up would give you a reasonably powered knock about/rat bike.
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[NJD]

Has the base, and important parts, for a very cheap foundation to be covered into a hipster style bike with a flat seat. Right bike for someone with the time, tools, interest and customer at what will probably be a very cheap price.

Looks to be fire damaged, mind? Frame looks like rust but the way the seat has melted makes me think it was stolen / set alight. All easily correctable with an angle grinder, some pipe (and a pipe bender) and a welder.

I regularly stalk this page for bikes I wish I had the space to bid on.
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[stinkwheel]

Better than a standard one. In brown.

Anyway. Looks like the idiot hipster conversion spat back through its inappropriately jetted carbs and set fire to the leaky float-bowls because it has no airbox.
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[Easy-X]

What I find amusing is that, for an insurance job, the carb and silencer went missing somewhere on the way to the salvage place

I would say it dovetails with the "Historic Vehicle" discussion but it's already been ruined in the flat-tracker, café-racer style even before the obvious fire so arguably doesn't qualify.
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[stinkwheel]

[Riejufixing]

[WD Forte]

[Easy-X]

[Bhud]

"Accident related damage" vs hipster conversion. Same thing!

[stevo as b4]

It's the sort of old fairly solid heavy and long lasting Japanese bike that some beardy weirdo's would buy to fit an industrial diesel engine into IMO.

[1198]

I’ve bought worse - admittedly to break for spares / selling the frame... rate

[Easy-X]

Feel free to suggest more miserable bikes found on FleaBay, ScamTree and Faceballs...
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Bhud]

Projects!

They got in over their heads. Not LOLing at these guys. They tried. They'll get themselves MT07s and put the ideas out of their minds, eventually. But first they need these things off their lawns. At first glance, it seems someone needed the engine from the Suzuki. But, upon closer inspection, the engine is included in the sale. It's just been removed. As for the second one, well, not sure what the issue was, but if he bought it with that raked-out frame and tank, perhaps he should have persisted, as that's a period chopper.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-Katana-650-Spares-or-Repairs-Project-1982/114100505315?hash=item1a90eb8ae3:g:mDUAAOSwnw5eRD78

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BSA-A65-CHOPPER-BOBBER-PROJECT-BARN-FIND-PROJECT-HARDTAIL-SPARES-OR-REPAIRS/114109702667?hash=item1a9177e20b:g:nqwAAOSwjwdeQu4j

[Undinist]

Tempting, but a bit overpowered. I'll wait for a CJ250.
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[Polarbear]

[stinkwheel]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

My old Mini Clubman Estate was in Harvest Gold originally. A can of Black Smoothrite soon cured that.

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/360/0814/04/mini-clubman-1100-estate-wood-trim_360_19527fa24e09eccf9565345a437527e0.jpg
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[Vracktal]

I've taxed worse
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[B0ndy]

Buy for cheap
Whack back on ebay: Barn find, project 90% done
Profit
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[andym]

[spottedtango]

I can’t tell if this was a machine designed to ride or burn testes

[Enduro Numpty]

Chain adjusters look salvageable

[A100man]

I Hope the hipster twat got his chuff singed off..

The Bike Shed will buy it and hang it on the wall of their beard barbers..
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